Breaking news
To go directly to the story click on the link below: Talks on working time directive shelved Company car survey reveals shock result Age discrimination: DTI factsheets World cup fever: a nightmare for HR? Class of 2006 – will they graduate? Talks on working time directive shelved Talks to secure a new opt-out deal for […]
News in brief: workplace stress driving men to drink
To go directly to the story click on the link below: Workplace stress driving men to drink New disability discrimination code on the way Training bonus Stats show public sector most affected by strikes Chancellor calls for local pay deals Are you making the most of your temps? Stalemate on working time directive opt-out TUC […]
Book review: City Slackers: Workers of the World – You are Wasting your Time!
Title: City Slackers: Workers of the World … You are Wasting your Time!Author: Steve McKevittPublisher: Cyan Communications Ltd.ISBN: 1-904879-72-1Price: £9.99Reviewer: Angela Busby The very fact that the back of the book jacket identifies this as a Business / Humour selection should have been my first clue that this was not going to be the usual […]
Opinion: Competencies overdone
FIMC Chartered Management Consultant John Pope explains why competencies are an ineffective and reductive way of judging success; and offers his solution for an alternative system to equip companies for global business challenges. Once upon a time, long ago, when there were personnel managers, employers recruited craftsmen on the basis that they had a proper […]
HR Zone Briefing #298 – Verbal contracts, do they mean a thing?
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What’s the answer? Apprenticeships
Sandra Gowers gets legal guidance this week from Martin Brewer, a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve, and Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson, on whether an apprentice has a case for breach of contract. The question:My nephew was offered and accepted the offer of an apprenticeship in Jan 06. […]
Company of the Week: Badenoch & Clark
Recruitment outfit, Badenoch & Clark has become an almost permanent fixture of the Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list and its range of quirky and innovative benefits and perks has contributed to the proclamation that indeed it is an employer of choice; Annie Hayes spoke to HR Director Keith Nash about why the […]
Psychometrics Spotlight: The 16PF Personality Questionnaire
In the second of a new series putting the range of psychometric tests under the spotlight we look at Raymond Cattell’s 16PF questionnaire. The 16PF® questionnaire was developed by Raymond Cattell in 1949 and it has been continually enhanced and updated. In creating the 16PF questionnaire, Cattell sought to create a tool that could capture […]
Employee incentives
Philip Fisher, Employee Benefits Partner at Chantrey Vellacott DFK, explains how to motivate staff and improve performance through incentives and rewards. Increasingly these days, employers and their advisers are coming up with complex schemes to offer incentives to employees and to minimise the employer’s tax and National Insurance Contributions.Laudable though this is, often the people […]
Member’s Tip: Contracts of Employment
Kam Bains explains the legal meaning of an employment contract and whether verbal agreements can over rule the paper document. The contract of employment in the legal sense means the totality of the terms of employment – express, implied and statutory. The paper document normally called the contract is merely indicative of those terms, but […]
Employee share schemes
Restricted eligibility criteria are preventing nearly two-thirds of employers from setting up employee share schemes, according to recent research by CCH.In an exclusive extract from his book, Employee Share Schemes, Chantrey Vellacott DFK partner, Philip Fisher, presents an introduction to the evolution of share-based remuneration in the UK, and the role the tax regime has […]
How to: Be confident in recruiting disabled workers
See these top tips from the experts on the rationale behind recruiting disabled workers, the issues and solutions and how to overcome problems. The RationaleThe ability to attract and appoint the best person for the job has to be the ultimate goal of any recruitment strategy, and with 6.8 million disabled people in the UK […]
HR Tip: Proof of drunkenness
These questions are being answered by Learn HR, a market leader in the provision of HR and payroll training and nationally-recognised professional qualifications. Q: “We believe that one of our employees turned up for work drunk one afternoon. We could not however prove it so took no action. Could we have acted differently?” A: You should […]
Book review: Change Management: a Critical Perspective
“As change becomes a constant in business life, there are also many elements to the book that will be useful for training management teams who are about to embark upon major organisational change.” Title: Change Management: a Critical Perspective Author: Mark HughesPublisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel and DevelopmentISBN: 1-84398-070-3Price: £32.99 (CIPD members £29.69)Reviewer: Sharon CooperI […]
Book review: Talent on Tap
FIMC Chartered Management Consultant John Pope finds this book “provides excellent guidance” but fails to deal with “the client’s often vague views of a business problem”. Title: Talent on TapAuthor: Emma Brierly Publisher: CIPD 2006ISBN: 1 84398 140 8Price: £24.99Reviewer: John PopeThis excellent book aims to help line management to get the best from freelancers, […]
Pensions – the changes
The age at which people receive the basic state pension will rise to 68, the government confirmed yesterday as it unveiled long-awaited reforms of the pensions system. Dan Martin, AccountingWEB business writer, explains the changes. Revealing the new White Paper in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, pensions minister John Hutton said to pay for […]
Colborn’s Corner: Does absence really make the heart grow fonder?
Quentin Colborn takes a look at absence following latest CBI findings which suggest that it has fallen to its lowest level for 20 years. The recent CBI statistics suggest that the total number of sick days fell in 2005 by four million days to ‘just’ 164 million. It’s got to be good news for UK […]
What’s the answer? Grievance raised after a redundancy
Andrew Murphy gets legal guidance this week from Martin Brewer, a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve and Sarah Bird, employment law expert, Browne Jacobson on how to deal with grievances raised following a redundancy programme. The question:Having been made redundant several of our employees have raised individual though identical grievances about […]
Book review: Take Control of your Career
HR Consultant Claudine McClean finds that, even though you probably fell into your career accidentally through “a history of luck (or lack of it)”, this book will help you “to balance what’s important and define what’s possible”. Title: Take Control of Your CareerAuthor: John LeesPublisher: McGraw-HillISBN: 0077109678Price: £12.99Reviewer: Claudine McClean Many people are still coming […]
Fixed-term employees: the changing laws
The Fixed Term Employee Regulations, which take effect from 10 July 2006, will allow fixed term employees to claim they are eligible for permanent status. Peter Done, Managing Director of Peninsula, explains the legal implications. The Regulations provide that the use of successive fixed-term contracts is limited to four years, unless the use of further […]
